
What is whipped cream?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Development of Structure in Whipped Cream
So whipped cream is a foam and foams are essentially just dispersions of gas in liquid. In this case, it is air that's dispersed among the contents of the cream, right? Just like you said, but there is something that gives it a structure. So they kind of get protein coming around the outside of the air bubbles. And then interlinking. It's forming those, I think it's intermolecular forces, but it could be one source to say cross linking which would indicate maybe an bonding. But it's more Intermolecular Forces to kind of make a network.
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